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Dangerous Assignment: Underground Press

Dangerous Assignment · October 8, 1952 · 24 min · 3,747 words

The transcript of “Underground Press”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast October 8, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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Dangerous assignment. Transcribe starring Brian Don LaVey as Steve Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing. They'll trouble. But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment is going to teach me that you can sometimes find your only chance dangling from the end of the rope.

Morning, Commissioner. You sent to me, Steve. I want you to go out and give me a newspaper. What's the matter? The delivery boy. Forget the toss one on your front porch this morning. It would have been a long course all the way from Vienna.

Austria? Yes, the newspaper I want you to go pick up for me is an addition of the Esterichkuria. Wait a minute, don't tell me I have to go all the way to Austria. Exactly. Okay, what's it all about, Commissioner?

Our contacts, members of the Underground, behind the Iron Curtain, picked up some vital information for us, Steve. Information regarding the activities of certain foreign agents operating in the United States. How does the newspaper fit in?

That's how the information is to be relayed to us, along with photographs of the agents themselves. Why? Oh, now wait a minute. Hey, I think I get it. I pick up a dummy copy. It's made to look like the regular edition.

Right. And the info we want is printed up in the form of news articles on the inside pages? Exactly. It's a very special edition, Steve. Put out by the Underground Press. It's a system they've used for the last year now.

It's one place the authorities wouldn't think are looking. Very neat. Where do I pick up this copy? You'll check with a waiter named Ziegler at a cafe called the Black Eagle. He'll tell you how and where to contact a man who's carrying the newspaper.

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